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I don't know my friend. If they are being taped, they aren't alone.

You are alone when bitten by a copper head and there is no medivac chopper to pull you out.

That's alone.

Something tells me that if a Griz wanders in to camp, it isn't just the contestant and their machete to scare it off.

I guess it wouldn't make for good viewing if nobody actually survived.

Just saying.

yes, I have seen it, or others like it.


I am not putting down the survival skills displayed. Just saying they aren't alone. Alone is risking death. Nobody is going to die on camera.


But along those lines....if I had to pick someone to help and teach me how to survive....the Army taught me a good deal so I do have some skills, I would pick a Cajun Swamper. They know how to survive.

Yes, they are actually Alone. It's unlike any other survival show on TV. If it weren't I wouldn't bother watching it. A medical team checks in on them in preset intervals and they do have a satellite phone for emergencies. But otherwise they are alone.

Ok....you agree they aren't alone. Just saying.

How do they get all the film? 9000 fixed cameras? If people are watching your every step, are you really alone?



I like the show and shows like it, but it's not like they dump them all and come back 3 months later to see if they are still alive.

I agree with bonefish that you should watch "Before the Drop". It explains all of that to you. About the batteries, about all of the camera equipment each contestant is given including still cameras that must learn to use before being dropped in their locations.

Do you think these shows still use film? A lot of shows these days are recorded digitally.

LOL....come on man, are you really going to make that a point?

I'm not the one that questioned...........


So yes, it appeared those points needed to be addressed.

Is Alone staged? Are they really Alone?

https://www.cynopsis.com/cyncity/five-things-viewers-dont-know-about-survival-series-alone/

I was talking about the use of the term film. I believe I also used the word tape at one point. Both would be incorrect, but you knew what i was talking about.

No, I actually didn't. You can put enough memory cards to hold that footage in a small container. So giving it to them in advance would be quite simple. And then you brought up something about "9000 fixed cameras" which simply don't exist. So when reading it I had no idea what the hell you were talking about actually.

ALL of that is explained in that "Before the drop" episode. And the link bonefish supplied also helps answer some of those questions. I think you were just trying too hard to make points that simply aren't there to make.

I love the show.
Can’t believe that dude already lost his quiver of arrows. Looks like he’ll need to get a grouse (feathers) and make some new arrows. A dumb mistake, but it’s early enough in the game to recover if he has the needed skills.

And yes Peen, they are alone. I mean technically they have a satellite phone so… you’re correct, they aren’t TRULY alone. That said, if a bear mauls them in their camp and they can’t get to their phone… yikes. Curtains.

Thought Mikey was done last night.

Taz how could he let that teepee catch on fire and destroy that big beautiful fish

Dont remember their names, but those two woman that almost finished their shelters are gonna warm if they finish it off right, but they are already not eating, that will their downfall

1. Lee
2. James
3. Melanie
4. Jodie

My early top 4.

I think you're referring to Juan Pablo Quiñonez from season 9. Not only didn't he procure food, he drank water straight from the river without boiling or purifying it in any way. An odd strategy to be sure but one that nobody can say wasn't effective. He beat out Karie Lee Knoke as the other finalist in season 9.

Like yourself it's far too early to make any predictions about this season but that Georgia boy sure seems to be out of his element thus far.

We have some Native American heritage in my family. We found out the hard way the price you pay for using a bow instead of a gun. Thus I've never been a bow hunter.

While I do think aging was a factor, they were also the skinniest contestants on the show. They had no fat build up stored with which to rely on. It seems the smartest contestants gain quite a bit of weight before going on the show so they have some fat stored up to help combat the hunger and have reserves with which to rely on. They did not. I think that may have been as big, if not a bigger factor than their age.

I was chose to go to the training for season 3, but my father got put in the hospital. so I had to decline.Would have loved to see if I would have made it.

It would have been cool to see someone from the board on the show but it's very understandable why you felt the need to decline under those circumstances. It will be interesting to see who does and who doesn't adapt to the change in the weather this season.

i i ould have been the oldest to try, i thunk I did the right thin.

Is tonight the finale? There’s a new alone that starts next Thursday, that’s why I ask.